Google India celebrates Harry Houdini's B'day with doodle

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Abdul Nisar

Posted By: Abdul Nisar

Published: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 11:27 [IST]

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Bangalore, Mar 24: As we predicted yesterday, the search engine giant Google featured the a new doodle on India's search engine home page to celebrate the 137th birthday of world famous magician, Harry Houdini.

Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, Harry Houdini was born on Mar 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary. Later, his family moved to United States, where Harry Houdini started his career as a magician.

Houdini is widely known as 'The Handcuff King,' because of escapes from handcuffs. Houdini could free himself from jails, handcuffs, chains, ropes, and even straitjackets. The Houdini doodle is simple and attractive. This time, Google presented the doodle in JPG format and clicking on the doodle, Google will lead you to the search result for Harry Houdini.